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the iroquois call it the dark times a

if climaxed in an epic battle between an

evil tyrant with supernatural powers and

a great warrior who became a prophet of peace

this is the history of America as you've

[Music]

when French explorers first ventured

into these great North Eastern forests

500 years ago they encountered a people

whom they called the Iroquois they ruled

a vast territory in what is now New York

State Ontario and Quebec the French were

impressed by the physical prowess of

these giants of the forest what they

didn't realize was that the Iroquois

system of government was extremely

sophisticated and far more democratic

than their own

but the path to peace and democracy was

the ancestors of the Iroquois had lived

when food was plentiful times were good

when it wasn't they move camp [Applause]

[Applause] [Music]

[Music]

then about a thousand years ago

archaeological evidence indicates they

began to cultivate the land in foreign

villages the villages grew in the

nation's five separate nations

stretching across what is now western

New York into Canada up to fifty

thousand people in all sharing similar

but displayed their similarities they

turned against each other soon war was

all they knew the land was in turmoil

feuds among villages even among families

for generations the Iroquois have passed

down the story of the dark times when

the people of the five nations were

locked in an endless cycle of violence

and revenge so bloody that threatened

[Music]

everywhere there was parable in cultures

with oral traditions the line between

legend and history is often blurred yet

in recent years much of this story has

been verified by historians and

archaeologists iron whathe sometimes

called hiawatha lives among the people

who raised the unand dog one of the five

bureau core Nations yet he's not

entirely one of them

his mother was a mohawk probably

captured in battle [Music]

since boyhood ayan watha has had to

prove himself he has become a leader of

[Applause]

but the wars have exacted a heavy toll

robbing him of his wife and six of his

seven children [Music]

yet he must fight on his village has

been attacked once again this time by

[Music]

ayan wathah leads his men East they know

whether being watched and not only by

Mohawk Scouts

the chief of their own nation Li

Onondaga has spies everywhere some take

others are shadowy creatures of the

forest especially the owl the Iroquois

the unand auger chief is a sorcerer a

he feeds on human flesh his name is Tara Davao

he lives in isolation far apart from his

though the unand Doga have other chiefs

uttered offal old supreme power to him

iron whathe and the Warriors are pawns

in a game but a doll who relishes

bloodshed war feeds his power as long as

[Music]

as Tara Davos spies look on iron waters

the Mohawk often come to this river to

fish it's within their territory

the easternmost of the five Iroquois nations

but even here they are not safe [Music]

[Music]

the iroquois are locked in a hundred

year war a civil war iein watha and the other

other

unand dog warriors are bent on revenge

in retaliation for a recent attack on

their village they want mohawk victims

[Music]

during the period the Iroquois called

the dark times revenge was not a choice

it was fundamental to the belief system

the way they honored and mourned did

their dead [Music]

to the Iroquois warriors every death had

the battles dragged on and on [Music]

the only alternative to revenge killing

a healthy captive of the same sex could

serve as a replacement for a person lost

in a previous battle but transporting

captors was risky if they loosen their

bindings and escaped they could gather

others to pursue the Raiders the

Iroquois bound their captives carefully

with hemp ropes the same substance they

used to carry burdens

this was also a symbolic act a way of

[Music]

on their way back to their village the

unand ugh warriors follow a path the

Iroquois have blazed through the

today this route is a highway that runs

between Albany and Buffalo but a

thousand years ago the Warriors ran

these miles forcing their captives to

keep up along the way they boasted of

the size of their victories in pictographs

at night under the stars ayan wather

camps were these men all of them are

weary of war the legend says that I want

the longs for a better life whose people

but can see no way out he cannot know

that many miles to the west a child has

been born who will show him the way to peace

[Music]

far to the northwest in the land of the

yeren a virgin girl gives birth to a baby

baby [Music]

she and all the urine in their village

realized the child is blessed and was

put on earth for a reason they called

the baby scan Allah Howard but in time

he would come to be known as the peacemaker

peacemaker [Music]

the archaeological record left by the

Iroquois attest to the fear in which

they live during the dark times towering

the only way in was through long

corridors designed to confuse and slow

attackers inside the stockade each clan

lived in one or more long houses a clan

was made up of many families related

through a common female ancestor in

Iroquois society women enjoyed power and

freedoms that would not be experienced

in Western cultures for hundreds of

years as time went on the oldest and

most respected woman in each house

became known as the clan mother these

they appointed the male Council Chiefs

and could also remove them from office

[Music]

in four of the five nations this

collaborative system of government

flourished the soul nation in which it

their Terra da whole reign supreme there

is only one person he allows close to

him and evil seductress named chief and

saucy she shares his zeal for war and

the whole village turns out to greet

they form a gauntlet a double line for

female elder presides she is looking for

replacements for her dead sons the

gauntlet is a test it reveals which

captives are strong and which ones are not

[Music]

iein wathah has lost his stomach for the

violence his daughter is the only one

[Music]

inside the stockade the sorting process continues

the Mohawk women and children find a

ready home [Music]

[Music]

men who survived the gauntlet are now

offered to families who've lost a

husband or father if accepted the

replacements will take on the identities

of the Dead and assume their names and

but those whom the elders reject face a

the Iroquois today tell a story of the

years before their Great Confederacy

when they were locked in a bloody civil

war and lost all sense of their own kinship

in those days life was valued as nothing

everywhere there was para here again the

archaeological evidence agrees with

in a kitchen mitten or ancient garbage

dump in Jamesville New York

scientists have unearthed dozens of

bones some are recognisably human with

cut marks were stone tools separated the

a hundred miles away archaeologists

found two skeletons with their arms

hands and feet severed one is also

Michigan's head Flint arrowheads are

deeply embedded in the bones the broken

points suggests the arrows were shot at

in the ashes of a campfire were found

charred human remains hard evidence that

the victims were not only killed but

the legend says that iron whathe is

sickened by the ways of these people and

his own violent part in it yet he fears

Tata Davao and continues to obey Him [Music]

[Music]

sensing he is losing iron waffles oil

tea the evil tyrant any supernatural

tah dah dah who will not tolerate any

finally ayan watha begins to think the

unthinkable could he bring down this

brutal man who cares nothing for his own

people tah dah da hos powers are

extraordinary no one has ever dared to

do fire what iron whathe still doesn't

in his Euron village the young

peacemaker grows tall and straight even

as a boy he's revered for his leadership

skills and powers of persuasion as a

young man the peacemaker learns about

the terrible war raging across the lake

far to the east he realizes he has a

[Music]

one day the peacemaker leads to the

villagers into the forest [Music]

[Music]

he hacks off the bark of a maple tree

and asked his people to taste the SAP if

it is sweet he says peace will come but

if it turns bitter and runs red like

blood that will mean the peacemakers

luck has run out

and the evil one has destroyed him [Music]

then in a magical canoe of white stone

the peacemaker sets out to fulfill his destiny

destiny [Music]

[Music]

as the peacemaker paddles East iron one

Thoreau stronger in his resolve to

he too has recognized his destiny [Music]

[Music]

the great warrior will attack the evil

chief under cover of darkness

I am Lanza and the onion dog warriors

prepare to attack the remote longhouse

their task is formidable but the men are

determined as always when facing battle

they paint their faces to terrify their

opponents black the color of war

whoo for strength read the sign a man is

their weapons are sharp and ready

hatchets axes and Flint knives developed

for hunting repurposed for war their

unique spiral of fletching mixed the

arrows spin to stabilize its flight and

increases accuracy their fearsome clubs

were developed strictly for combat the

it's long shaft is carved from Ironwood

with a heavy ball at the end what the

Warriors don't realize is that these

weapons will be useless against the

iein wasa knows he may never return

but it's a risk he must take to try to

save these people [Music]

[Music]

I am whathe swore party inches toward

the evil shaman is ready for them da da

da who uses all the dark creatures of

arrows fly from everywhere yet there are

from his longhouse cutter da who has

been fighting on two fronts he's worked

his evil magic in iron whatas village as well

the tyrant has spared iron wathah only

[Music] [Applause]

[Applause] [Music]

[Music]

the great Iroquois leader iron juanfe

has been defeated in battle [Music]

the death of his last surviving daughter

at the hands of the evil Tara da who has

but the peacemaker draws closer every day

[Music]

Skinner Lahari has journeyed hundreds of

miles across the Great Lakes bearing his

there are many versions of what happens

next one holds that iron wanta to the

[Music]

he finds shells which remind him of his

daughter's necklace [Music]

[Music]

at that very moment the peacemaker

appears on what he console's iron want

the fries loss and points out how the

shells are opening his heart and

allowing him to more and his daughter [Music]

[Music]

scan Allah how he teaches iron want them

that shells like these when strung

together are called wampum they offer an

alternative to the endless quest for

vengeance a better way for the Iroquois

to honor their dead iron wathah feels

the rage and hate that fuel these days

as a warrior vanish [Music]

[Music]

he accepts the peacemakers message and

resolves to carry it to his people this

task will not be easy the Iroquois have

but iron whathe in the peacemaker set

out to convince the five nations to

abandon war [Music]

their first stop is the land of the

Mohawk not surprisingly they are met

in many versions of this story ayan

wanza is cruelly tortured salió an otaku

[Music]

finally the peacemaker convinces the

mohawk chief to listen mister no of the

the chief agrees to support their cause

but only if the other nations will take

up the challenge too [Music]

the people of the standing stone the

Oneida are the next to accept the

they are joined by the people of the

Great Swamp the Kyogre and the people of

the great hill the Seneca [Music]

until there is only one nation that

remains apart iein want his own people

to onondaga [Music]

[Music]

the time has come once again for the new

disciple of peace to face down his blood

the warrior iron whathe is now a man of

peace he is ready to confront tada ho

the onion dog a tyrant who has

terrorized his people ayan wanta has won

support of the rest of Chiefs and all

even karada whose evil Ally Jagan saw

say has repented her ways and joined the procession

according to the legend the power of the

singing draws Terra da hole from his

dark long house [Music]

at first the evil tyrant mocks them his

power is based on chaos and revenge to

and then something happens that even

today dahil cannot ignore another

coincidence of history and legend [Music]

[Music]

until recently most historians and

archeologists believed that the Iroquois

formed their union sometime between the

14th and 16th centuries but the Iroquois

themselves always place the event much earlier

earlier [Music]

[Music]

only one astronomical event agrees with

both oral history and scientific

evidence on August 31st

11:42 a great eclipse blocked out the

Sun for a dramatic three and a half minutes

minutes [Music]

tah dah dah who understands his

my own want that and chicken so stay

calm the snakes from his hair as he

this is the moment when the five nations

established the great law of peace to

rule the relations they form a new

United government da da da who is

appointed head of its Council in chicken

sauce a the mother of Nations [Music]

[Music]

the transformation of the five nations

into the Iroquois Confederacy is

immortalized in a wampum belt at its

center is a white pine tree symbolizing

the unity of the Iroquois nation to this

day it is known as iron waters Belt [Music]

[Music]

under a great white pine on the shores

of Onondaga Lake in present-day New York

the Warriors

lay down their weapons they bury the

from this moment their internal battles

will involve words not weapons they form

a Grand Council made up of

representatives from each of the five nations

this idea of proportional representation

would inspire another set of nation

builders 700 years later the founding

fathers embraced this idea when writing

the Constitution of the United States [Music]

[Music]

they also adopted an Iroquois symbol in

the words of the peacemaker one arrow

was like a single nation or state easily broken

broken

but a union is unbreakable [Music]

[Music]

the image of an eagle holding a bundle

of arrows is central to the Great Seal

of the United States [Music]

[Music]

today the legend of iron whathe and the

peacemaker lives on not only in the laws

and traditions of the Iroquois

Confederacy but at the heart of

[Music]

the great warrior will attack the evil

chief under cover of darkness

iein wanta and the onion dog warriors

prepare to attack the remote longhouse

of tada home to overthrow their evil

ruler their task is formidable but the

as always when facing battle they paint

their faces to terrify their opponents

black the color of war wound for strength

strength

read the sign a man is ready to kill or

their weapons are sharp and ready

hatchets axes and Flint knives developed

for hunting repurposed for war their

unique spiral of fletching mixed the

arrows spin to stabilize its flight and

increases accuracy their fearsome clubs

were developed strictly for combat the

it's long shaft is carved from Ironwood

with a heavy ball at the end what the

Warriors don't realize is that these

weapons will be useless against the

but it's a risk he must take to try to

save his people [Music]

is that these weapons will be useless

against the supernatural forces of Terra

but it's a risk he must take to try to

save his people [Music]

iron woth --is war party inches toward

the evil shaman is ready for them da da

da who uses all the dark creatures of

arrows fly from everywhere yet there are

from his longhouse cutter da who has

been fighting on two fronts he's worked

his evil magic and iron whatas village

the tyrant has spared iron whathe only

this is the moment when the five Nations

established the great law of peace to

rule the relations they form a new

United government tada who was appointed

head of its Council and chicken sauce a

the mother of Nations [Music]

[Music]

the transformation of the five nations

into the Iroquois Confederacy is

immortalized in a warm from belt at its

center is a white pine tree symbolizing

the unity of the Iroquois nation to this

day it is known as iron waters Belt [Music]

under a great white pine on the shores

of Onondaga Lake in present-day New York

the Warriors

lay down their weapons they bury that

from this moment their internal battles

will involve words not weapons they form

a Grand Council made up of

representatives from each of the five nations

this idea of proportional representation

would inspire another set of nation

builders 700 years later the founding

fathers embraced this idea when writing

the Constitution of the United States [Music]

[Music]

they also adopted an Iroquois symbol in

the words of the peacemaker one arrow is

like a single nation or state easily

broken but a union is unbreakable [Music]

[Music]

the image of an eagle holding a bundle

of arrows is central to the Great Seal

of the United States [Music]

[Music]

today the legend of iron wathah and the

peacemaker lives on not only in the laws

and traditions of the Iroquois

Confederacy but at the heart of

it climaxed in an epic battle between an

evil tyrant with supernatural powers and

a great warrior who became a prophet of peace

this is the history of America as you've

[Music]

when French explorers first ventured

into these great northeastern forests

500 years ago they encountered a people

whom they called the Iroquois they ruled

a vast territory in what is now New York

State Ontario and Quebec the French were

impressed by the physical prowess of

these giants of the forest what they

didn't realize was that the Iroquois

system of government was extremely

sophisticated and far more democratic in

their own but the path to peace and

the ancestors of the Iroquois had lived

when food was plentiful times were good

when it wasn't they move camp [Applause]

[Applause] [Music]

[Music]

then about a thousand years ago

archaeological evidence indicates they

began to cultivate the land in foreign

villages the villages grew in the

nation's five separate nations

stretching across what is now western

New York into Canada up to fifty

thousand people in all sharing similar

but despite their similarities they

turned against each other iced teas

people dyin wanta has won support of the

rest of Chiefs and all the female elders

of the five nations even today da whose

evil Ally Jagan saw say has repented her

according to the legend the power of

their singing draws parody hole from his

dark long house [Music]

at first the evil tyrant mocks them his

power is based on chaos and revenge to

and then something happens that even

today da ho cannot ignore another

coincidence of history and legend [Music]

[Music]

until recently most historians and

archeologists believed that the Iroquois

formed their union sometime between the

14th and 16th centuries but the Iroquois

themselves always place the event much earlier

earlier [Music]

[Music]

only one astronomical event agrees with

both oral history and scientific

evidence on August 31st

11:42 a great eclipse blocked out the

Sun for a dramatic three and a half minutes

minutes [Music]

tah dah dah who understands his

I own wanta and chacón so stay calm the

snakes from his hair as he relinquishes

this is the moment when the five nations

at first the evil tyrant mocks them his

power is based on chaos and revenge to

and then something happens that even

today da ho cannot ignore another

coincidence of history and legend [Music]

[Music]

until recently most historians and

archeologists believed that the Iroquois

formed their union sometime between the

14th and 16th centuries but the Iroquois

themselves always place the event much earlier

earlier [Music]

[Music]

only one astronomical event agrees with

both oral history and scientific

evidence on August 31st

11:42 a great eclipse blocked out the Sun for a dramatic three and a half

Sun for a dramatic three and a half minutes

minutes [Music]

tah dah dah who understands his tyrannical reign is over

I unwanted and Chacon so stay calm the snakes from his hair as he relinquishes

snakes from his hair as he relinquishes his powers

this is the moment when the five nations established the great law of peace to

established the great law of peace to rule the relations they form a new

rule the relations they form a new United government tada who was appointed

United government tada who was appointed head of its Council and chicken sauce a

head of its Council and chicken sauce a the mother of Nations

the mother of Nations [Music]

[Music] the transformation of the five nations

the transformation of the five nations into the Iroquois Confederacy is

into the Iroquois Confederacy is immortalized in a wampum belt at its

immortalized in a wampum belt at its center is a white pine tree symbolizing

center is a white pine tree symbolizing the unity of the Iroquois nation to this

the unity of the Iroquois nation to this day it is known as iron waters Belt

day it is known as iron waters Belt [Music]

under a great white pine on the shores of Onondaga Lake a heavy toll robbing

of Onondaga Lake a heavy toll robbing him of his wife and six of his seven

him of his wife and six of his seven children

children [Music]

yet he must fight on his village has been attacked once again this time by

been attacked once again this time by the Mohawk his people clamor for revenge

[Music] ayan wathah leads his men East

they know weather being watched and not only by Mohawk Scouts

only by Mohawk Scouts

the chief of their own nation the Onondaga has spies everywhere

others are shadowy creatures of the forest especially the owl the Iroquois

forest especially the owl the Iroquois omen of death the unand augur chief is a

omen of death the unand augur chief is a sorcerer a shaman who manipulates the

sorcerer a shaman who manipulates the evil spirits

his hair rides with snakes he feeds on human flesh his name's Terra Dawa

he lives in isolation far apart from his people who fear Him

though the unand auga have other chiefs added offal holds

have other chiefs added offal holds supreme power to him ayan whathe and the

supreme power to him ayan whathe and the Warriors are pawns in a game cut a dog

Warriors are pawns in a game cut a dog will relishes bloodshed war feeds his

will relishes bloodshed war feeds his power as long as the chaos continues his

power as long as the chaos continues his reign is significant to avoid stone the

reign is significant to avoid stone the peacemaker sets out to fulfill his

peacemaker sets out to fulfill his destiny as the peacemaker paddles east

destiny as the peacemaker paddles east iron want ago stronger in his resolve to

iron want ago stronger in his resolve to remove to the davao from power

he too has recognized his destiny [Music]

[Music] the great warrior will attack the evil

the great warrior will attack the evil chief under cover of darkness

chief under cover of darkness iein wanta and the onion dog of warriors

iein wanta and the onion dog of warriors prepare to attack the remote longhouse

prepare to attack the remote longhouse of Kidada ho to overthrow their evil

of Kidada ho to overthrow their evil ruler their task is formidable but the

ruler their task is formidable but the men are determined

as always when facing battle they paint their faces to terrify their opponents

their faces to terrify their opponents black the color of war blue for strength

black the color of war blue for strength read the sign a man is ready to kill or

read the sign a man is ready to kill or be killed

their weapons are sharp and ready hatchets axes and Flint knives developed

hatchets axes and Flint knives developed for hunting repurposed for war their

for hunting repurposed for war their bows and arrows are state of the art

unique spiral of fletching mixed the arrows spin to stabilize its flight and

arrows spin to stabilize its flight and increases accuracy

their fearsome clubs were developed strictly for combat the most common is

strictly for combat the most common is called the Gojira it's long shaft is

called the Gojira it's long shaft is carved from Ironwood with a heavy ball

carved from Ironwood with a heavy ball at the end what the Warriors don't

at the end what the Warriors don't realize is that these weapons will be

realize is that these weapons will be useless against the supernatural forces

useless against the supernatural forces of Terra da hole

but it's a risk he must as tada da house pies look on iron woth --is men prepare

pies look on iron woth --is men prepare to attack

the Mohawk often come to this river to fish it's within their territory the

fish it's within their territory the easternmost of the five Iroquois nations

the iroquois are locked in a hundred-year war a civil war iron wathah

hundred-year war a civil war iron wathah and the other Onondaga warriors are bent

and the other Onondaga warriors are bent on revenge in retaliation for a recent

on revenge in retaliation for a recent attack on their village they want mohawk

attack on their village they want mohawk victims of dead and alive

[Music] during the period the Iroquois called

during the period the Iroquois called the dark times revenge was not a choice

the dark times revenge was not a choice it was fundamental to the belief system

it was fundamental to the belief system the way they honored and mourned did

the way they honored and mourned did they're dead

they're dead [Music]

to the Iroquois warriors every death had to be answered by another

the battles dragged on and on there is only one person he allows close to him

only one person he allows close to him and evil seductress named chica and

and evil seductress named chica and saucier she shares his zeal for war and

saucier she shares his zeal for war and he's craving for chaos

the whole village turns out to greet iron Wafaa and the victorious warriors

they form a gauntlet a double line for the male prisoners to pass through a

female elder presides she is looking for replacements for her dead sons the

replacements for her dead sons the gauntlet is a test it reveals which

gauntlet is a test it reveals which captives are strong and which ones are

captives are strong and which ones are not

[Music] I earn wathah has lost his stomach for

I earn wathah has lost his stomach for the violence his daughter is the only

the violence his daughter is the only one who still brings him joy

[Music] inside the stockade the sorting process

inside the stockade the sorting process continues

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